CHICAGO -- Rays right-hander Matt Andriese executed what he feels he does best on Sunday, in his first start since June 10, by pounding the zone. He might have done it a little too much, though, leaving a few balls over the plate. He gave up five runs and plenty of sharp contact in a 6-2 loss to the White Sox.
The 28-year-old hit his pitch-count target by throwing 74 pitches over five innings, allowing five runs and two home runs with five strikeouts. Andriese, who missed two and a half months with a stress reaction in his right hip, displayed plenty of swing-and-miss stuff, inducing 14 swinging strikes, eight coming on his offspeed pitches, but he also found himself hanging pitches in bad spots.